Jones: Joining United Just Felt Right

October 1, 2011

Several clubs met Blackburn’s asking price for Phil Jones last summer but the young lad decided that he wanted to join United. Liverpool even beat the asking price by £6m but Jones rejected moves to all the others.

Jones has revealed today in The Telegraph how he felt when he heard United wanted to sign him.

“It was brilliant when I heard of United’s interest, an incredible feeling,” said Jones. “The whole experience – speaking to the manager on the phone, meeting him in person, going through the whole process of signing – was fantastic. Lots of clubs showed an interest in me, but United just felt right; the whole club, the set-up. It wasn’t the fact that it was United, it was that I walked in here and met people, the staff and physios et cetera, and it just felt right. At Blackburn, when I knew there was interest from bigger clubs, I said to myself that if it [a move] happens, then it has to feel right and this felt right.”

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Yes indeed, and the experience could not have been any better. Well done lad, just keep it up and soon the OT forklore will be singing your name loudest or maybe we can forget your real name and just call you big Dunco. Hi lads, what do you think of todays game?

Agreed Costas.....'King Kenny' is just a dour cunt who thinks his shambolic team is better than they actually are......
Gerrard is too old, fucked and finished as a premier league force.....
as is Carragher who is relying more and more on thuggish antics to get by.....
they lose Torres and pay 35 mill for a drunk pikey.....

The Mirror are running an in-house debate via Twitter: Who would be more frightening when in full rage mode? Sir Alex or King Kenny. They even posed the question to Michael Owen via twitter who hasn't yet responded.

@dela, Yeah, I sometimes wonder the same thing. I just started reading Manchester United - 19, and in the beginning itself, there's some insight from Peter Beardsley who says that United and Sir Alex's rise directly coincides with Dalglish leaving Liverpool. And I thought - What the fuck. So what, had King Kenny continued at Liverpool, we maybe wouldn't have been as successful as we've been over the past two decades. Give me a break. Sir Alex will eat Kenny for breakfast, lunch and dinner any day of the week. Look at how mediocre his dealings have been in this transfer window itself, how can anyone still put him in the same league as Sir Alex is beyond me?

Watching the Everton v Liverpool match and I must say that Martin Atkinson has again proved to me that he is a completely incompetent referee. Just sent off Rodwell for what was at best a yellow card offence... Shame really, when the beautiful game is so often ruined by shameful decisions by the officials

The Premier League has become a joke nowadays when it comes to refereeing. Unless someone takes a serious look at the administrative side of things, it is only going to get worse. Managers, players, owners, coaches etc. - Everybody associated with football is accountable for their mistakes, so why shouldn't referees be. Notwithstanding the fact that their mistakes are the most game-changing, championship-deciding ones, it is absolutely stupid to expect players to "respect' good-for-nothing referees like Atkinson who can make such decisions right in front of play. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Rodwell was fined for his touchline outburst whereas Atkinson went unpunished. That is the only thing spoiling the entertainment factor of the premier league.

On the decision itself, it has to be one of the worst decisions I've ever seen on a footballing pitch. I'm one of those who is always partial to referees and umpires. They have an extremely difficult job to do, and I don't hold them accountable even against us unless it is an absolutely horrendous decision. The same reason why I believed those two offsides against Chelsea for us were OK because they were close decisions whereas Drogba's from a couple of years ago wasn't. This one wasn't even close. He was standing right on top of play and got a good look at the tackle. Rodwell clearly got the ball and then the man in his follow-through. His foot wasn't raised and there was absolutely no intent at all. It wasn't even a reckless tackle like Cunt Cole's against Hernandez. Atkinson is a disgrace to football in my opinion.

I'm holidaying in Sri Lanka as we speak. I am in no mood for a holiday, however- our defence has been giving me sleepless nights ever since that Basel game. How is Haifa Wehbe-land treating you?

The officials have been bottling decisions far too often lately. I honestly think the Respect campaign is a joke- referees are professionals too and should be held accountable when they are bad at their jobs.

@smartalex, Considering how some ex-United players perform against all our rivals, I wouldn't be surprised if there were added incentives from United based on how they perform for the benefit of their ex-Employers.